Plants and Pipettes: Recent Episodes
Joram Schwartzmann and Tegan Armarego-Marriott
We recorded this gem a while back but because Joram we are only publishing it now. So if any of our jokes feel dated, it’s because of that. Clearly. We are always very topical and on point with our humour.
- Maddox Prize 2023 – Sense about Science
- Gotta grow fast! – Plants and Pipettes
- Distribution, drivers and restoration priorities of plant invasions in India
- Epidermal bladder cells as a herbivore defense mechanism
- Genetic basis of the historical iron‐accumulating dgl and brz mutants in pea – Harrington – The Plant Journal – Wiley Online Library
- Composition, formation mechanism, and removal method of off‐odor in soymilk products
- Mutations in the genes responsible for the synthesis of furan fatty acids resolve the light‐induced off‐odor in soybean oil – Watanabe – The Plant Journal – Wiley Online Library
- Back from the Dead: New Hope for Resurrecting Extinct Plants – Yale E360.
- Selecting the best candidates for resurrecting extinct-in-the-wild plants from herbaria | Nature Plants
- Elements of Style in Floral Arrangements: How Discerning Are Consumers Toward Floristry Design Principles and How Much Are They Willing to Pay?
- New secrets about cat evolution revealed | ScienceDaily
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We have a packed episode for you with news from never-browning potatoes, mysterious sunflowers and also an answer to your constant question: How many cells are there?
- Argentinian scientists develop first Latin American genetically edited potato to prevent enzymatic browning
- EU legal proposal for genome-edited crops hints at a science-based approach
- You say genome editing, I say natural mutation | ScienceDaily
- Idiosyncratic and dose-dependent epistasis drives variation in tomato fruit size | Science
- Lateral gene transfer generates accessory genes that accumulate at different rates within a grass lineage – Raimondeau – New Phytologist
- flavour of grape colour: anthocyanin content tunes aroma precursor composition by altering the berry microenvironment | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic
- How sunflowers see the sun | ScienceDaily
- Multiple light signaling pathways control solar tracking in sunflowers | PLOS Biology
- New and Antifungal Diterpenoids of Sunflower against Gray Mold | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
- New calculations say there are more living cells than grains of sand or stars in the sky | Science
- The geologic history of primary productivity: Current Biology
- Plants transformed into detectors of dangerous chemicals | ScienceDaily
- An orthogonalized PYR1-based CID module with reprogrammable ligand-binding specificity | Nature Chemical Biology
- Rats have an imagination, new research suggests | ScienceDaily
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Did you know? We didn’t either! We were just as surprised as you are right now and let’s indulge in this feeling together with this new spoken word content by your favourite content producers!
Hi. This is a new episode. It’s about plants, pipettes, panic and paranoia. Please enjoy.
We are talking pigweed. We are talking ATPase in diatoms. We are talking trees. What more do you want?!
This week, it’s all about plants. What they do, why they do it and what to look out for when looking at plants. Marvellous!
Welcome to Ants and Pipettes, the podcast about ants and their relationship to plants and also there are pipettes. I don’t know. Have fun!
- Recovery after long-term summer drought: Hydraulic measurements reveal legacy effects in trunks of Picea abies but not in Fagus sylvatica
- Scientists engineer the first light-powered yeast | Science | AAAS
- Using light for energy: examining the evolution of phototrophic metabolism through synthetic construction | bioRxiv
- Natural Coumarin Isomers with Dramatically Different AIE Properties: Mechanism and Application
- Have your cake and print it: the 3D culinary revolution is coming | 3D printing | The Guardian
- Impact of varying macronutrient composition on the printability of pea-based inks in extrusion-based 3D food printing
- Macroecological diversification of ants is linked to angiosperm evolution | Evolution Letters | Oxford Academic
- Ants took over the world by following flowering plants out of prehistoric forests — ScienceDaily
- Soejatmi Dransfield – Wikipedia.
- Negativity drives online news consumption | Nature Human Behaviour
- Marvellous moths! pollen deposition rate of bramble (Rubus futicosus L. agg.) is greater at night than day | PLOS ONE
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In this episode, Joram harnesses the powers of technology to prepare himself in a much worse way, arguably. So learn from Joram and reject technology (after you finished using technology to listen to this show, please)!
- One hundred important questions facing plant science: an international perspective
- First Peoples’ knowledge leads scientists to reveal ‘fairy circles’ and termite linyji are linked in Australia | Nature Ecology & Evolution
- Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative: Cell
- Pollination of Specklinia by nectar-feeding Drosophila: the first reported case of a deceptive syndrome employing aggregation pheromones in Orchidaceae | Annals of Botany | Oxford Academic (2015 paper)
- Mimicking orchids lure bees from afar with exaggerated ultraviolet signals – Scaccabarozzi – 2023 – Ecology and Evolution – Wiley Online Library
- Chia seedlings verify Alan Turing’s ideas about patterns in nature
- Flower weather prediction
- Capybaras thrive, even near humans, because they’re not picky eaters
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Yes, this is the plant podcast. No, we are not three people running it. Don’t listen to the bots. We know who we are. We think.
- Eponyms have no place in modern biology
- In the Name of Plants by Sandra Knapp | Waterstones
- Not just flowering time: a resurrection approach shows floral attraction traits are changing over time
- Genome-wide association study reveals WRKY42 as a novel plant transcription factor that influences oviposition preference of Pieris butterflies | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic
- ‘Spell-checker for statistics’ reduces errors in the psychology literature
- Drug Delivery in Plants Using Silk Microneedles – Cao – 2023 – Advanced Materials – Wiley Online Library
- Single-cell proteomics: challenges and prospects | Nature Methods
- To the proteome and beyond: advances in single-cell omics profiling for plant systems
- Smart orchard design improves crop pollination
- Svalbard Global Seed Vault Virtual Tour
- Take A Peek Inside Svalbard’s “Doomsday” Seed Vault With This VR Tour | IFLScience
- Svalbard Global Seed Vault Virtual Tour
- Kew’s “Noah’s Ark” Seed Vault Hits 40,000 Species From Around The World | IFLScience
- Why don’t horseflies land on zebras? | Journal of Experimental Biology | The Company of Biologists
- Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack | PLOS ONE
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Believe it or not, we had a c~~h~~atBot write our title this week. Oh the wonders of science. Speaking of science: plants. Plant science. Sciency plants. planty planty planty science. Now!
- You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local – Our World in Data
- Multiple ecosystem service synergies and landscape mediation of biodiversity within urban agroecosystems – Jha – 2023 – Ecology Letters – Wiley Online Library
- We read The Garden Jungle by Dave Goulson in the Plant Book Club
- Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe’s
- Our Story on wasps and figs: There might have been a wasp in your fig – but don’t throw it away!
- Figs and Mulberries, inside and out | The Botanist in the Kitchen
- Korea’s Demilitarized Zone — Google Arts & Culture
- Mining museums for historical DNA: advances and challenges in museomics
- Origins of Coca: Museum Genomics Reveals Multiple Independent Domestications from Progenitor Erythroxylum gracilipes | Systematic Biology | Oxford Academic
- Paper about gget by Laura Lübbert
- Using genome structure, rather than gene trees, to infer relationships in ancient allopolyploid lineages | Nature Portfolio Ecology & Evolution Community
- Genome structure-based Juglandaceae phylogenies contradict alignment-based phylogenies and substitution rates vary with DNA repair genes | Nature Communications
- Licorice is not only delicious it also acts as a pesticide
- Nagai Nagayoshi – Wikipedia
- CatGPT
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We recorded in advance but then Joram edited late so overall it evens out to just be a day late in your feed. Not that you care, we know you live life like us, one moment at a time, not knowing what day of the week is today. At least we hope you do so we look less messy. Anyway – plants!
- The Tweet announcing that we are an award winning podcast
- Intercrops as foraging habitats for bees: Bees do not prefer sole legume crops over legume-cereal mixtures
- Massive effects on chromatin after ploidy rearrangement in doubled haploids | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic
- Cats and Naked Ladies – Plants and Pipettes
- Predicting plant Rubisco kinetics from RbcL sequence data using machine learning | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic
- Can a Burger Help Solve Climate Change? | The New Yorker
- Red Rubiscos and opportunities for engineering green plants | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic
- Will the Academic Prisoner’s Dilemma impact eLife 2.0 | by KamounLab
- Some People Hate Open Science. This Is What They Think. | by James Heathers
- Rare bunny disperses seeds
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We are back from the break! We are completely different but also pretty much the same so come along and learn about mucus seeds, pink cotton, dandelion physics and a play performed by two very much non-actors.
- Ethereal New Plant Species Doesn’t Use Photosynthesis – It’s Found Something Sneakier
- “Pink cotton candy” – A new dye‐free cotton – Li – Plant Biotechnology Journal – Wiley Online Library
- Research Progress of Betalain in Response to Adverse Stresses and Evolutionary Relationship Compared with Anthocyanin
- Flower patterns improve foraging efficiency in bumblebees by guiding approach flight and landing – Richter – Functional Ecology – Wiley Online Library
- armor or invisibility cloak? Mucilage‐bound sand physically protects seeds from rodents and invertebrates – LoPresti – Journal of Ecology – Wiley Online Library
- Genomic analysis of an ultrasmall freshwater green alga, Medakamo hakoo | Communications Biology
- Cytological Evidence of Cell-Nuclear Genome Size of a New Ultra-Small Unicellular Freshwater Green Alga
- Smallest known freshwater green algae, Medakamo hakoo, discovered
- Warming-induced changes of broccoli head to cauliflower-like curd in Brassica oleracea are regulated by DNA methylation as revealed by methylome and transcriptome co-profiling | Molecular Horticulture
- Why dandelion seeds are so good at spreading widely
- Environmental morphing enables informed dispersal of the dandelion diaspore | eLife
- Three dialogs between a Professor and a student who performed an experiment without including controls – KamounLab
- The Lost History of Cat Domestication Can Finally Be Told : ScienceAlert
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While plant science missed out on yet another Nobel prize, you are not missing out on yet another great plant science episode. We have a hairy balled plant, some evidence about ATP and a whole Can of Spinach!
- Bits und Bäume
- Carbon Offsets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- Gomphocarpus physocarpus – Wikipedia
- Gomphocarpus physocarpus
- Reward research for being useful — not just flashy
- A bryophyte-like polymer layer protected supercapacitor electrode with enhanced cycling stability
- A nuclear import pathway exploited by pathogenic noncoding RNAs
- Every Life Form on Earth Uses The Same Chemical For Energy. This Could Explain Why. : ScienceAlert
- A prebiotic basis for ATP as the universal energy currency | PLOS Biology
- Massive crossover suppression by CRISPR–Cas-mediated plant chromosome engineering
- Algae as microscopic biorefineries — ScienceDaily
- In vivo Olefin Metathesis in Microalgae Upgrades Lipids to Building Blocks for Polymers and Chemicals – Schunck – Angewandte Chemie International Edition – Wiley Online Library
- Structure of wheat immune protein resolved — important tool in the battle for food security — ScienceDaily
- A wheat resistosome defines common principles of immune receptor channels | Nature
- CAN OF SPINACH, a novel long non-coding RNA, affects iron deficiency responses in Arabidopsis thaliana
- Ahmet’s answer on twitter
- Watch A Houseplant Control A Machete-Wielding Robotic Arm, For Science | IFLScience
- Increasing evidence that bears are not carnivores: Given a choice, captive bears mimic mixed diets of wild peers — ScienceDaily
- Ursids evolved early and continuously to be low-protein macronutrient omnivores | Scientific Reports
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They trained dogs to search for underground orchids and we trained ourselves to talk about it. Amazing.
- The first evidence of microplastics in plant-formed fresh-water micro-ecosystems: Dipsacus teasel phytotelmata in Slovakia contaminated with MPs
- ‘Like finding life on Mars’: why the underground orchid is Australia’s strangest, most mysterious flower
- PROFILE | MAREE ELLIOTT
- To protect this rare underground orchid, researchers are keeping its location top secret – ABC News
- NOTES ON AUSTRALASIAN ORCHIDS 6: A NEW SPECIES OF Rhizanthella (DIURIDEAE, SUBTRIBE PRASOPHYLLINAE) FROM EASTERN AUSTRALIA
- Rhizanthella gardneri – Wikipedia
- Rampant Gene Loss in the Underground Orchid Rhizanthella gardneri Highlights Evolutionary Constraints on Plastid Genomes – PMC
- Pando’s pulse: Vital signs signal need for course correction at world-renowned aspen forest
- Identification and quantification of giant bioaerosol particles over the Amazon rainforest | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
- Palynology – Wikipedia
- The Effect of Species Soybean Vein Necrosis Orthotospovirus (SVNV) on Life Table Parameters of Its Vector, Soybean Thrips (Neohydatothrips variabilis Thysanoptera: Thripidae)
- Sorting of mitochondrial and plastid heteroplasmy in Arabidopsis is extremely rapid and depends on MSH1 activity | PNAS
- Social networks in the single cell | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic
- Altered collective mitochondrial dynamics in the Arabidopsis msh1 mutant compromising organelle DNA maintenance
- Daily briefing: Most US professors went to the same few universities
- The Story of the 2021 World Lemur Festival Logo
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Last week, we wanted to be moss and this week science has listened to us and turned human (cells) into moss. Well kinda. Not really. A little bit. Still, we’re excited to become moss.
Would you trust us if we spoke badly about cheese? This, and other science facts in our newest plant science show for you!
Sometimes, technology makes our lives better. On other occasions, it makes it much harder. This week was one of those times, the recording equipment failed on us. We still did a fun show full of cool plant science, it just doesn’t sound as nice. Sorry!
We’re back from our holidays and we brought a big bag of plant facts from the last couple of weeks of plant science!
This week, we learn something new: have you heard about apomictic propagation? Well, now you have. We also bring the hottest news from the plant science world.
We have a lot of questions this week that even we don’t know the answer to. This is your time to shine
Hi! Would you like some cool plant facts? We have a fresh new paper about biofortified tomatoes that give you your daily dose of vitamin D, a new oldest tree and an explanation of why catnip likes to be a cat bed.
Would you swap your cat for a praying mantis? What about a nice house plant? This week, we are asking the big questions. Also news from plant science, a new biggest plant has been found and more potent cannabis from Israel.
This week, we’re talking about a cool gene regulatory mechanism that keeps ribosomes busy, the truth behind French lillies and which plants best not to pick.
It’s travel season here at Plants and Pipettes and so we thought we’d share some travel facts from the plant world! How do plants travel? Is collecting trees cool? How does humidity propel seeds forward? We have the answers.
This week, we’re talking about the worst favourite plant ever, keystone genes and how surfers can be scientists. Also: your dog’s breed doesn’t mean what you think it means.
Mysteriously we came back yet again for more plant facts. This week, we’re checking a plant’s pores, take about unextinct flowers and why some plants eat the very insects that pollinate them.
It’s our belated easter episode! We talk about the Queen of Vegetables, the mighty eggplant. We filled almost an hour with eggplant facts, factoids and words that merely resemble a fact from a distance.
We finally found a way to market non-dairy milk as milk without upsetting any consumer or dairy company: cowpea milk. Plus: we discuss plantibodies, micronutrients and, weirdly enough, ocelot pee.
We begin this week with a looooong discussion about the movie “Little Joe”. It’s fun (talking about the movie, not the movie itself. Don’t watch it). Also we have new research about epimutagenesis, grain-free ice cream and the benefits of weeds.
Kat Austen is an artist and researcher based in Berlin. Kat was so kind to talk to us about her work about microplastics in trees, her view on science and art and her upcoming projects. Welcome to Plants and Pipettes: Kat Austen!
Have you heard of fynbos? This week, we discuss how the fynbos ecosystem withstands turning into a forest, what problems arise from academic bullying and why you’d pump nectar out of a flower.
Joram is sick again but it won’t stop us from talking about plants. This time, it’s more plant adjacent: we’re talking about a weird new way some bacteria do photosynthesis. Also lots of clever animals and a tale of paleobotanical experiments.
In this episode, Joram learns about wuthering heights and Tegan learns why chickpeas are believed to giggle in Germany. Also there is talk about red nectar, flammable litter and really old trees.
This week, we’re talking about the link between the constructor of fountains, Neptune, and a small seagrass in the Mediterranean sea. Also more on X-ray microscopy and a discussion on who deserves to be on the author list (it’s Joram).
Hi! Heads up, there is a long spoiler for Don’t look up at the beginning. Did you know that we have chapters to quickly skip ahead? Now you do. Also, we talk about a very poisonous plant and how to move owls!
We all have goals this year. Joram’s goal is to befriend a crow, but only if Tegan doesn’t stab him with her fantastically hard claws first. Yes, this is a plant podcast, we promise.
We just read “Entangled Life” by Merlin Sheldrake and now we’re considering turning this little show into a fungal podcast. Before that happens, here is an episode of all things we love about fungi and plants together.
And we’re back from the winter/summer break/non-break. We are talking about a perfect tomato, smoke smelling trees and the science of listening to the environment.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
And we’re back! Joram is taking care of yet another human and found the time to talk plant science. This week is just a bunch of cool science stories, next week we’ll be back with our regular structure.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
Door 1 of our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
This is our final episode – before we have to go on a break because Joram can’t stop procreating and will have to raise yet another newborn human. Enjoy this short fun episode about Marianne North, the Holmes effect and not one but two plant hormones that made the news.
Some people say, Joram is too close to still being sick in this episode. Those people are wrong. Joram is just a pretentious stuck up golfer who will never speak again with air freely travelling through his nose. So there’s that. Also, we have plant science for (for real!) and other… stuff. Like a stuffy nose. Bless you.
Who’s got one foot and so many chloroplasts? Well, not this guy but this weird sea slug. We talked about our friends the chloroplast stealing sea slugs before, and today we bring news on them from a recent study. Do the stolen chloroplasts really work? Find out this and more on today’s fresh episode!
We’re starting the second batch: 101 to 200. This week, we’re talking STEAM, ivy, and plasma. Also, we finally uncover the personalities of cats. Come along!
It wasn’t always easy. It was no walk in the park. But with perseverance, focus and endurance we made it to 100 mostly plant science facts! I think we all deserve a round of applause, a pat on the back and a new hoya for the living room. Enjoy!
They didn’t think we could do it and then we did. This is batch three of four, with the facts 50 to 75 in our countdown (countup?) to 100 mostly plant science facts.
We underpromised and overdelivered: You wanted 100 facts, we gave you that and a bit more over the span of 4 episodes. This is batch 2: 26 to 50. We have trees, marine microorganisms, old trees, lasers and a plant that cannot die.
Yay! It is episode 100! To celebrate, we’re bringen 100 mostly plant science facts to you. Because we can’t ask you to listen to us for THAT long, we’re splitting the bulk. So get ready for the first 25(ish) facts from our giant list!
This week, we’re talking about the wood wide web and advantages it brings to those connected to it. Also bird facts, plant facts and gun facts (wtf?)!
This week we’re inspired by a giant dick rocket making its way into space (and also back for some reason). Before we go back to shopping online to fund the next space mission, we’re talking some awesome plant science. #inspiring
We’re back from the summer break. If you had guessed that we will be more on point, less rambly and more focussed on plants after our break I have to ask: do you even know us? Anyway, we have cool science facts and not a single cut in the entire episode.
Fly like a lemur, sting like an ant in a crow, as my late grandfather used to say to me before I was born. With that in mind, let’s talk about some plant facts. We have new organs, delicious salty plants and a first of its kind almost-social fern. Let’s go!
I said hey, what’s going on? We’re more or less vaxxed, we’re excited about summer and we’re bringing plant facts! We’re diving deep into epigenetics, discuss climate fixes and talk for a surprisingly long time about marsupial genitalia. The usual.
We are very hopeful this week that many bad things will come to an end. Also, we talk about a spiky favourite tree, lots of pride in STEM and many other cool things.
Big udder won’t like this episode – not specifically because we said anything but mostly because they are a joyless bundle of cow farts. In this brand new and highly sought-after episode, we are discussing proximity proteomics, global earthworm abundance and the best way to water your plants.
This week, we’re going cave diving. Not too deep though, we still need a little bit of light to find a moss. We also talk plant forensics and about the cooles news in plant science.
Oh Carp! Is it a new week already? We have another episode for you, this time talking about priming in maize, biosensors and carp science! Do you know whether carp can hear music? Tell us. We need to know.
A new episode is here! We’re talking about a sheep made of vegetables in the mountains, microneedles on plant leaves and the amazin work of Joanne Chory.
We’re blue, da ba dee, da ba dye – Our sauerkraut senses were tingling when we read today’s science story about a blue dye made from cabbage. Also: something we can learn from the pandemic and how to get burned by parsnips.
Your favourite tools are back to talk about some great science tools: a 28-page guide book for SciComm, DIY microscopes and the best AI-crafted pickup lines this side of the Mississippi. Also some actual plant science.
A bumblebee’s tongue is not something we thought to discuss but here we are. This week, by pure coincidence, is all about plants and their pollinators. Follow the buzz, sip some nectar and come along for some plant science.
This is technically still a plant podcast even though we talk a suspiciously long time about fancy words and worms. There is also a new favourite plant, an awesome researcher and cool new science from the last week or so!
This week, we’re welcoming our close friend Etienne Meyer to the show. Together with Joram, he just published a new paper on ATP synthase research and we take the chance to talk about it.
There is a worm moon on the rise and we’re here for it. This week, we’re talking about the science behind lavender, the antarctic explorer Rosell Ocampo-Friedmann and our favourite bits and pieces from the last week.
This week, we’re talking about a paper that looks at the internal selection processes happening within plants to decide which fruit makes the cut. Plus a number of interesting facts from the last days.
This week, Tegan found the truth about a song from 2012. We also discuss lots of plant and non-plant science from the last week or so. Did you know that cuttlefish are as smart as a toddler?
We’re super happy to have a special guest with us this week. Aly Baumgartner is a paleontologist with a specialty in paleobotany. With her, we talk about how to find plant fossils, how to analyse them and so much more about the fascinating world of plant based paleontology.
On a week that exhausted us both we slowly descend into madness and conspiracy theories. This episode could be the last that you hear from us – but it won’t be. We talk about a cool genus of plants, Mexican botanist Helia Bravo Hollis and the right way to draw icebergs.
Welcome to another week of doomsday escapism. We bring you a cool story about transpiring tomatoes, wonder about wild cotton and are suspicious about road-side super-plants. And we ask: What is your favourite idiom that translates poorly into English?
It snowed! Well, not that you can see any of that, but we’re excited nonetheless. We’re also excited about this week’s topics: we’re talking about fabulous Acacias in Central Africa, the road towards more accessible science and a lot of homework that other people did for us.
This episode is TNT (it’s dynamite) and it’s blue (da ba dee)! We got an email from a spinach that brought us to learn more about the material sciences of plants and we talk about lots of blue facts! Also: science bots!
This week, we’re talking about noble rhubarb and an amazing story of a female adventurer, botanist and tavern owner, Jeanne Baret. Plus speculations about the moon, a lot of great inventions and a parrot who likes crisps.
Watch out! It’s a snake! Or is it? In this week’s episode, we’re diving deep underground in the search for the reason behind stunted root growth and we talk about animals that pretend to be dangerous – and some that actually are.
In this episode, Joram presents not only a plant but an entire order of plants, mostly because he has no idea how plant nomenclature works. Tegan presents the life and work of two important women, Matilda Gage and Margaret Rossiter. Aren’t we two little overachievers?
We’re back! After an extended winter break we return with a cool new paper and lots and lots of science fun facts somewhat related to plants!
Deck the halls and snatch the gravy, it’s a Christmas episode of your favourite plant podcast that is hosted by Tegan and Joram! In this year’s final episode, we’re bringing you one last time in 2020 all the facts and bits of information you never knew you needed. Moth Cyborgs? Check. Zombees? Check. Way too much talking about Christmas music? CHECK. Please enjoy this episode, and have a wonderful winter break. Stay safe, stay healthy, stay happy, everyone!
This week, we have a story about seed conservation in times of war and we discuss multiple aspects of machine learning in molecular biology. Plus cool plant facts and as always: cutting edge cat research.
After a week off, we’re back with some cool facts from the world of plants and gulls. Did you know that gulls know your every move? There are probably some on the roof as we speak. They see you when you’re sleeping, they know when you’re awake. You better not pout, you better not cry. Sea gulls are coming to town.
It’s good news week! Not only was Trump kicked out of office, we also have major news regarding the Covid and AIDS pandemic. Of course we won’t forget our passion for plants over all that joy, so tag along for a deep dive into the biology of sorghum – plus some cool facts from last week’s science.
Joram came so well prepared, it made Tegan angry. The two work through their disagreements though in another episode filled to the brim with tales from the (plant) science world.
While Joram is running at 1% brain battery, Tegan makes up for the lack of a decent podcast partner by bringing a really cool paper: researchers found a 30 second timer within venus fly traps. Plus more sutff!
In this episode, Joram gets really upset. Tegan offers her services as an apocalyptic seamstress. And somewhere, a palla's cat is looking regal.
This week, we're talking about a cool process in trees where they all flower and set seeds in sync to produce a massive wave of fruit. Also general news from the world of science!
Joram is tired, Tegan has been singing – a perfect storm for some (plant) science! We discuss the story of Artemisia absinthium, talk about the woes of single-named scientists and bring you the hottest science facts from the last seven days.
We’re really happy to welcome Florencia Yannelli on the podcast. She is an ecologist and plant researcher who was not stopped by Corona to do science – she simply did the experiment at home! Florencia’s research interest lies in invasive species and how they influence the community of plants and microbes in their habitats. We talk about her academic and home research and what role scientific outreach plays for her. You can learn more about Florencia on her website and get in touch through her twitter: @floryannelli.
Hey! Ho! Hey! Ho! It’s a new episode of your favourite podcast about plants and pipettes. This week, we’re talking about C3 and C4 trees, the sounds of forests and how women disrupted bird research. Let’s go!
Hello! We have a podcast for you. We talk about the plant that made creamy icecream possible, awesome plant scientists from Ethiopia and stone cold birds.
Welcome to this struggle-episode! We had bad connection problems which meant that we spent most of our time blaming each other for having terrible internet. In between the blame game, we talked about a molecular sensor for microviscosity, nerd tattoos and why Joram won’t get any of them.
After an uneventful week, our two main protagonists meet yet again to discuss the ups and downs of current plant research. Tag along as our heroes discuss the true meaning of succulent, how to mine Nickel and why blue plant outlines are so hot right now*.
What would happen if you stacked ten layers of indoor wheat on top of each other – and then stacked ten of those stacks? We're discussing the highs and lows of vertical farming, talk about terrible naming schemes and the rediscovery of an animal that's neither elephant nor shrew.
Some weeks we talk a lot about plant science, some weeks we explore a lot of plant-science-adjacent topics. You be the judge of what happened this week.
Don’t you dare disrespect our favourite model organism, Arabidopsis. No wait, we love tobacco and hate Arabidopsis. No! Both are the WORST, we love Chlamydomonas above everything else! Or were we team sunflower?
You know the drill: we talk about our favourite plant (it’s drilling itself into the ground), a cool researcher (she travelled to Antarctica to study lichen), a cognitive bias (the end will please you) and fun stuff (a lot of it). Please enjoy.
This week, we're talking about plant intelligence and whether or not a pea plant can be conditioned like a dog.
This week, we're talking about Tegan's favourite plant, Elizabeth Mrema, the end-of-history illusion and many fun things from the world of science!
There is an important part in recording a podcast and that is hitting the record button. As one of us missed that crucial input for this week’s episode, the sound is a bit… not great. Don’t worry though, the stories we tell are making up ten-fold for the lack audio quality. We talk about how scientists developed a way to use soap bubbles to pollinate plants!
First things first: Black Lives Matter. After a short break, we’re back with a new episode, we first address the issue at hand of police brutality against people of colour and what it means to us as white plant scientists. To provide a little diversion from the horrors of the current situation of the world, we also talk about our favourite science and plant related fun facts.
It's the 50th episode! Instead of our usual routine, we play a game of fake, fake, truth and answer your listener questions. Tag along for a fun special episode!
This week, we’re talking about cowpeas and how they grow in arid regions, the contribution of Georgiana Simpson to Black Rights in the US, and the effect of humor on information retention. Plus so much more!
This week, we’re diving into a science paper that was hard to miss. It’s all about creating artificial photosynthesis using spinach chloroplasts. We also talk about our favourite genome duplication events and news in the world of science.
It’s time for all our segments! We talk weird chewing gum, South African botanists, biases and answer your questions. Do trees still breathe when they lose their foliage?
We’re back. We were never really gone. We had just hurt our individual faces and now they’re in good enough shape to drag them in front of the microphones. This week, we talk about coffee, rat spines and glow-in-the-dark plants. Keep your faces intact and enjoy!
Grab your top hat and ball gown, it is time to get fancy! This week, we dress up and talk about favourite plants, great scientists and all sorts of things that moved us in the last week.
This week, we're talking yellow shrubs, palm researchers and ostrich biases. Plus exciting facts about yeast, bread, cats and more!
It's the best time to start a sourdough and listen to us talk about plant biology. Let the dough rise and watch your plants move in response to light and/or gravity!
We're trying something new in these trying times. Every other week we'll have a deep dive into a new paper and on off-weeks, like this one, we'll talk about some of our other segments. So practice social distance and enjoy our new episode!
This week, it's all about viruses. We feel anxious about the corona virus, we talk about viruses in Maize and we even listen to viral music.
I hope you're doing well and the ever-present Corona virus hasn't reached you or your loved ones. While conferences and such are cancelled, we remain unaffected as we both dwell in our homes with little to no contact to the outside world, only connected by a remote podcasting session.
We're finally back together – even though it's just for one night. We celebrate by recording a podcast for you and we talk about sex changing trees, the tiniest plants and lots of fun stuff.
Why do plant embryos do photosynthesis? New research investigated this vexing phenomenon and we had a look at the paper. We also talk about bats and cacti, why leaving science can be the best option, and about getting overly excited about random clusters in your data analysis. Plus so much more.
Have you ever done an experiment for longer than 2 years? How about 12 years? Today, we're talking about an extermely longterm experiment that might shed light on the origin of eukaryotes. Plus: a ton more...
This is a long episode because we have so much to tell you. Luckily for you, technology has your back. This episode is best consumed through the use of chapter marks, smart playback and 2x playback speed. Unless you really like us, then there is so much more for you to enjoy.
What are you doing with your life? Are you having a good time? You're about to because this here is another episode of the best podcast about plants and pipettes you'll hear all day. This, is plants and pipettes – the podcast.
Have you heard about division planes in growing leaves? Well, you should have, because we literally talked about this yesterday on the blog. If you're not doing your homework, I don't see why we should put in an effort to educate you. Just kidding, we repeat everything that was written yesterday (and more!)
This week's episode includes a jump back in time. Crazy, how nature do that. It's totally not linked to a big mess-up by both of us. No. Really. We are good with this stuff. For real.
RAWR XD! This week, we're all about dinosaurs and old geological time periods. Did you know that both the iconic T-Rex and the velociraptor are dinosaurs from the cretaceous period and not from the jurassic period?
Rejoice for we returned. Properly. Full episode. Fun facts. 2 cat facts. Christmas came early.
We're still on a podcast break. Good news is that Tegan arrived well in her new home. Bad news is that Joram got himself a weird virus that will knock him out in 10, 9, 8, 7, ...
Good news! Tegan successfully relocated herself and everything she holds dear to a new country. Bad news is, however, that the move still took too much time for us to properly record a real episode. You'll have to make do with this little intermission, where Joram reads you a story we published in April this year. It's about a superweed!
We're continuing our break from regular episodes. To quench your thirst for plant science, we have another short story from the blog here on the podcast. This time, Tegan wrote about Arabidopsis ecotypes and Joram reads it to you.
This week, we have bad news. No new episode from your favourite hosts of the Plants and Pipettes Podcast. Tegan went missing in a mountain of moving boxes several days ago, and Joram has a pacifier permanently attached to his face. So instead, we have this little filler for you.
Spooky time is over – now it's all about regular boring plants again. Boring? Not on this podcast! It's pretty much the most amazing plant podcast on this website.
This is the spoooooookiest episode of our podcast! We have scary stories, spooky facts and gruesome details about plants and pipettes. We recorded in full costume and would like to see your plant related costumes! Send them to us!
Sometimes, it's ok to do a short episode. After all, there is plenty to listen to again on here, so yeah. We talk about RuBisCO research and plants and stuff. It really is like the ones before but different and with other topics.
It's autumn! We just came back from a trip to Berlin's botanical garden and record for the first time ever remotely – so forgive us for any technical hiccups. This week, we got a bit lost in a long discussion about the usefulness of committees as safeguards concerning ethical questions and we promise that we're usually not that angry.
We talk quite a bit about airports in the beginning but actually this episode is about CRISPR (yay!), favourite plants (yaaaaaayyy!) and fun stuff (yyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy!). It's a good episode.
Tegan was wearing beautiful earrings. Unfortunately for you, they happen to make a nice little clinking sound that you might or might not pick up from the recording. Also I had terrible discipline in touching noisy wrapping paper. We're terribly sorry, but the episode is worth it, I promise. 😘
Oh no, GMO! Did you know that your GMO-free peanuts are far from being free from transgenes? Also they're full of chemicals, most of which are taken up by the body and used in the human metabolism. Beware the mighty peanut!
You are your own lucksmith so you're to blame for tuning in on this very good episode. it is very good. We talk about swans, staudenmarkt and special moss stuff.
We are not only achievers in science, we are officially high achievers in science. Don't believe us? Ask Stefanie, she'll tell you. This week we bring you research on agrivoltaics, facts about tulips and two tired podcasters. Please enjoy.
This week we talk about cool light assembling proteins, shrimp plants and cats in backpacks.
We're busy with applying for jobs and still we're making more episodes for you. Aren't we nice? We're really nice. Plants are also nice and so is plant research. We talk about plant research so this podcast is also nice.
What? Another episode? I thought we were done with episodes. Okay okay, here we go again. Plant science. We love it. You love us. You must love plant science.
If you are a plant you are probably indifferent to podcasts. So I'll just assume you're a human with ears who also likes podcasts. Boy, are you in for a treat because this here is a new episode of a podcast. What a coincidence! We talk about plant research and non-plant research. Excited? We are too!
Hello and welcome to another podcast episode. We talk about antagonistic patronuseses, thoroughly researched favourite plants and so many fun facts. Like so many, I can't even count them.
For the first half, Tegan is pretty much eating ice cream and Joram is talking about plant science to himself – and to you people out there. So be kind and support Joram in his struggle and listen to his tales. You might also have ice cream to go with it.
What is more fun than talking about molecular research? I hope you're shouting now "diving deep into the horrors of the climate crisis!" because you're right. In this fun and upbeat episode we wonder whether we can stop the climate crisis by planting trees. Can you guess the answer?
This week, we're finding out whether old or new wheat varieties do better on low quality soil. Tegan tells how not to get murdered and we spent a lot of time on being annoyed by sexist advertising (but there's hope!) Have fun and let us know in the comments, twitter or facebook what you think of the stuff we discuss.
Joram took an electric scooter through the best city in the world to join Tegan in her kitchen for yet another episode about plants and pipettes and things that are fun.
Friday, Friday we get down on Friday, Saturday is the next day and Sunday comes afterwards! Oh, and a new podcast episode. This time, we were a little bit rambly but we managed to cover everything important. And the windows was also open because we had like four million degrees inside, scientifically speaking.
Despite a MASSIVE thunderstorm we came together and recorded episode 10 for you guys. Aren't we great? Yes, we are.
This week, Joram is nerding out about Harry Bittercress, the newest star on the firmament of young adult research articles. Tegan's favourite plant is super slick and super endangered and then we have an app for you and some feline fun facts. If you don't listen to this episode, then someone else will, so be prepared!
Pennycress is a promising crop to gap the off-time between soy and corn during winter. Pennycress withstands cold climates and offers a new way to sustainably protect soil from erosion while at the same time containing commercially valuable oils. Having presented the work on the blog, we had the chance to talk to Ratan Chopra, researcher at the university of Minnesota, about his work domesticating pennycress.
This week, we're talking about research on Saffron and on a crouching dragon protein. Plus cool plant photos and crossing into the wild. Oh, and we have a new favourite plant.
Again, we brought you two papers. Paper one discusses the antimetabolite 7dSh and its mode of function. In paper two, Tegan presents the role of DNA degradation in organelles in old leaves and what role it plays for phosphor and nitrogen recycling.
Did you ever wonder how ferns used to control their stomata? Or how plants spring back to life after being dehydrated in the desert? We got some of the answers! On top of that, we listen to pine cone disintegration, gaze at microjets from citrus peel and present our favourite plant to you!
In this episode, we embark to discover seed germination determination through heat shock factor proteins and we will answer the age old question "Is Junk DNA really Junk?!?"
How do plants recognise their kin, as in their brothers and sisters growing next to them? And how do plants know that winter is over and it's time to bolt and make some flowers? We try to answer these questions and on top of that, Tegan has a new favourite plant for you. Plus fun! Plus Science! It's the whole package!
In this episode, we explore nitrogen cycles on grazed fields and how researchers found a shortcut to circumvent photorespiration.
2 researchers, 2 papers, lots of talking. We present you each week two exciting papers from current research and tell you why molecular plant biology is so amazing. This week, we explore the science behind touching plants, transforming chloroplasts, DIY centrifuges and the Dunning-Kruger effect in GMO opposition.